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Old Jan 7, 2013 | 08:46 PM
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Is there a way to import contact photos to the phonebook on 2013 RX 350? Each phonebook entry has a large icon with an outline of a head, which looks like a placeholder for a photo.

One more question: it looks like RX can read text messages. Does this feature depend on the car settings or a phone model? If I have one of supported phones, will this just work or I need to set something up?

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Old Jan 8, 2013 | 09:34 AM
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and my RX 350 reads the messages as the texts come in.
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Old Jan 8, 2013 | 09:50 AM
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I did some research on this and both functions are tied to Bluetooth profiles connected phone can support. For messages it needs to support MAP; for phonebook transfer it's PBAP. My phone does not support MAP but supports PBAP, although image transfer is not supported. If there's a workaround for this to work, it would be great to hear it. I checked phone compatibility on official site and couldn't find a single phone that supports image transfer...
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Old Jan 8, 2013 | 12:55 PM
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I have Samsung Galaxy S3 and I can see the contact photo when I talk to that person on the navigation display. I don't have to do anything special. I just synchronize contacts via bluetooth.
I also can hear the text message if I am driving and can read it on the display otherwise. I can do quick reply with pre-written messages. Neat!

There are a few contacts that can't get into the car contact book. I am not sure why. I use google contacts in my phone.
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Old Jan 9, 2013 | 12:18 PM
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Thanks for responses. According to lexus, phonebook image contact is not supposed to work on S3
This seems to be phone-specific, I initially thought this functionality depends on OS.
I have Galaxy Nexus and messages as well as contact photos don't work...

PS
Do you see song info with album cover when you play music over Bluetooth?
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Old Jan 9, 2013 | 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by lynhnn

There are a few contacts that can't get into the car contact book. I am not sure why. I use google contacts in my phone.
Yesterday I did some debug and found out that contacts with postal address can't make it to the car's phone book. I removed the postal address and can see the contact in the car.
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